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...Party leader, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, who from hailing distance could be mistaken for Disraeli, put it: "If we [the British people] are to avoid the alternative evils of economic anarchy and bureaucratic stagnation, we will have to make very considerable changes in the machinery of government...
General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, India's Commander in Chief, broadcast from Delhi that danger was closer to India than it has been for 150 years. But what would save India, said General Wavell, was her "fighting men," not "undisciplined schoolboys" and "ignorant hooligans." Indians groaned at the slipshod arrogance of the military mind. They demanded, as before, that the Indian masses be armed and allowed to defend themselves under their own leaders...
...London stirred with rumors that Churchill was about to reorganize his command system. Was the up-&-down hero of Libya and Ethiopia, General Sir Archibald Wavell, to be Churchill's military right bower? No one knew. Churchill had never really warmed to Wavell-at least until recently. But Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was Wavell's favorite; the separation of Sir Henry's command from that of General Alexander in Egypt and Syria had long been General Wavell's idea. London expected to hear more of Wavell, and of his plans for close Anglo-American contact with...
...save Russia now" were Admiral William Harrison Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, who flew from the Soviet Union's alternate capital, Kuibyshev, and Major General Follett Bradley of the U.S. Army Air Forces, who flew from Washington with a personal message to Stalin from President Roosevelt. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia, also flew in from Kuibyshev. Others were Roger Garreau, head of the Fighting French mission to Moscow, and Major General William Steffens, Norwegian military attache...
...Government now began an ambitious educational program. Returning to Washington last week, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish left behind in London a new Office of War Information branch, headed by onetime Banker James Paul Warburg. It has four functions: 1) supplying U.S. information to Britons, a job to be directed by able, young New York Timesman James B. Reston who spent four years in England covering British affairs; 2) conducting political (i.e., propaganda) warfare in enemy countries; 3) rebroadcasting U.S. short-wave programs from Britain; 4) improving relations between U.S. soldiers and Britons...